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Introduction
Robert Frost is the largest American poet of the 20th century, whose
life was
divided into two conditional parts - hardships and obscurity in the first half,
vocation and glory in the second.
During World War II, more than a million
leaflets with Frost's life-affirming poem "Come in!"
were distributed in the
American army. He was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, spoke
at the Kennedy
inauguration ceremony,
was a goodwill ambassador, his poems were included in
school anthologies ... For
the United States, Frost was "more than a poet."
In this paper, we will consider the influence of Frost's creations on English
poetry in particular and the world in general.
The relevance of this work lies in the fact that Frost became interesting to
the world relatively recently, since earlier they simply could not and did not even
want to understand him.
We set the following
objectives for our course work:
- the study of the poetry of an American writer, in fact, a new look at Frost's
thinking ;
- Deeper penetration into American culture.
There is something very special in Frost's poetry
- a fusion of the national,
even emphatically local, with the universal, modern with the eternal. Frost seems
to have taken the secret of this alloy, which was worked out in a "crucible" of very
personal experiences, with him.
As
mentioned above, Frost is a kind of poet. Both the
theoretical and